3. Variation and the Interpretation of Change in periphrastic
DO: Anthony Warner (University of York).

4. Evolutionary Models and Functional-Typological Theories of
Language Change: William Croft (University of New Mexico).

Part II: Words: derivation and prosody.

5. Old and Middle English Prosody: Donka Minkova (UCLA).

6. Prosodic Preferences: From Old English to Early Modern
English: Paula Fikkert (Radboud University Nijmegen, The
Netherlands), Elan Dresher (University of Toronto, Canada) and
Aditi Lahiri (University of Konstanz, Germany).

Ans van Kemenade is Professor in the Department of English
at the Radboud University Nijmegen, and is author of Syntactic
Case and Morphological Case in the History of English (1987),
and The Syntax of Early English (2000; with O. Fischer, W.
Koopman, and W. van der Wurff).

Bettelou Los is a lecturer in the Department of English
at the Radboud University Nijmegen. She is author of Infinitival
Complementation in Old and Middle English (1999) and The
Rise of the to-infinitive (2005).

“This ground-breaking book includes insightful and thorough
analyses of a large number of features in the history of English,
offering numerous new starting-points and theoretical
considerations. Indispensable for all students and scholars of
English historical linguistics and philology.” Matti
Rissanen, University of Helsinki, Finland

“A wonderful encapsulation of the field by cutting-edge
scholars, inspired by the fin de siècle burst of
research success in English historical linguistics. A must-read for
all English language historians interested in how far we have come
toward resolving the issues left open by Jespersen, Luick, Wyld,
Sweet, and the other great philologists. It offers vastly deeper
access to these problems, both through computer corpora and through
new theoretical insights. Brilliant and often definitive.”
Robert Stockwell, UCLA

"As with The Handbook of English Linguistics, I enjoyed different
insights and would also use it for state-of-the-art summaries and
additional reading."Elly Van Gelderen, Arizona State University

“This ground-breaking book includes insightful and thorough
analyses of a large number of features in the history of English,
offering numerous new starting-points and theoretical
considerations. Indispensable for all students and scholars of
English historical linguistics and
philology.” –Matti Rissanen, University of
Helsinki, Finland

“A wonderful encapsulation of the field by cutting-edge
scholars, inspired by the fin de siècle burst of
research success in English historical linguistics. A must-read for
all English language historians interested in how far we have come
toward resolving the issues left open by Jespersen, Luick, Wyld,
Sweet, and the other great philologists. It offers vastly deeper
access to these problems, both through computer corpora and through
new theoretical insights. Brilliant and often
definitive.” –Robert Stockwell, UCLA

"As with The Handbook of English Linguistics, I enjoyed
different insights and would also use it for state-of-the-art
summaries and additional reading." –Elly Van
Gelderen, Arizona State University

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